Good idea! That's the point I was missing in all of this...it seemed that going to GoDaddy.com and changing the DNS (I have direct control if they're registered there and they allow me access) for each site as much trouble as setting up a virtual directory for temporary use...
The pieces are starting fall into place. Thanks, Jim! Rick -----Original Message----- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 4:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: How to set virtual sites for localhost viewing? What you're misssing is that you're unlikely to have direct access to the DNS for all of your clients. You need to set up these host names under your _own_ domain name, or else you'll find yourself needing to contact the client's domain administrator, which gets ugly fast. And is unnecessary. Like I said before, the host names you choose could be generic names, or they could be names reflecting the client name. For instance sbo.whitestonemedia.com might be the host name for the Shellman Bluff Outfitters development site. If you don't want to deal with this for each new client dev site, create some generic ones and reuse them. dev01.whitestonemedia.com dev02.whitestonemedia.com etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Faircloth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:02 PM Subject: RE: How to set virtual sites for localhost viewing? > Ok...what I did at GoDaddy was entered "dev" along with "www" and "@" > as A Records for ShellmanBluffOutfitters.com... > > For the virtual website on my server, I put > dev.ShellmanBluffOutfitters.com > as > Host Header...sound right? > > Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:38 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: How to set virtual sites for localhost viewing? > > > If that's the case, then www.ShellmanBluffOutfitters.com would also be > too > long. > > Dev is exactly like www as far as setting up in DNS. CNames could be > useful, > but let's keep it simple until it is working! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:196870 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
